Rain Usa Poems

   O, the perfumed scent
     of lilac and daffodil
   You'll never replace the stench
   ...

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Cowpoke
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16

Sleep, old man...
your day has long since passed.
The endless plains,
cool midnight rains
and changeless ragged cows
alone remain
of what once was.

You...

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This highway's mine, goodbye to Jayne,
so long, farewell, Virginia Plain,
strife was yesterday's heavy load,
life is tomorrow's open road,
it's time to hitchhike once again.

Heading where songs,...

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days dry as can be
rain are you hiding from me
clouds I need to see...

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Swiftly, lightening
Flashes in the sky, singing ~
Melody so calm

...

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It was a stressful drive
Up north I-seventy-five
The rain came pouring down
Water, water, all around

Semi-trucks carrying loads
Vie for places on road
I was in middle lane
Trying to...

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In New York, New Jersey, one can really feel a change
In the climate: the coming of spring, a new season.
The sun is shining more; the...

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I dreamt one night, that we were both under an old tree. 
I was laying in your lap & we felt so completely free. 

Like...

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Empty my pockets please
empty my heart
empty everything and bring to me
another start
I am wet with grief and sinking
all my saddest days of thinking
cannot move this...

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Consciousness is the statue of liberty
Consciousness is zero dark thirty
Its levels are beyond my reach
Who am I to teach or preach?
Consciousness is a hint of...

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yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch

plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse



yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch

sunflowers
hang...

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Various Heresies 4

I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch

I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.

But then...

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Tears on Mother Liberty

Plutocracy the society they created through the Trump towers, now they regret it Like Iraq having no democracy.

Theocracy seems Like the answer...

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Swept across the oceans red,
That Wretch whom Nostradamus said,
A wound indeed of Intentions Known,
Sent far and wide to weep and mourn,

Such pain did Marx and...

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I love Kim and Kim loves me
We’re as friendly as can be,
Were it not for this one thing
I’d endorse the kid as King.
But maturity eludes...

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